What s the matter with dogs licking the couch and floor all the time?

It may be pica, it is recommended to go to the pet hospital to check it and buy some trace elements for your dog to eat.

Pica is a syndrome caused by a metabolic disorder. It is mainly manifested as dogs licking and gnawing on some things that have no nutritional value or cannot be eaten. It is not a disease, but a deficiency of certain nutrients, chronic digestive dysfunction.

If the dog is found licking and eating foreign objects, such as grass, gravel, dirt, hair, etc., it is an abnormal behavior and the owner should pay close attention to it.

The causes of pica are complex and are mostly food lists.

1. Nutritional deficiencies caused by parasitic diseases, chronic digestive dysfunction and other reasons, especially long-term lack of minerals necessary for growth, vitamin B complex and certain proteins and amino acids.

If the dog licks the sofa and the floor, the most direct possibility is that there is something on the floor, but if there is no food, it may mean that the dog is bored and panicked, so he has to distract himself by licking the floor.

Dogs are not like cats will lick their bodies to clean up, they usually think something weird will lick, so when you see a dog licking yourself, you may want to pay attention to whether it is injured or sick! And if they lick their soles of their feet, noses, or mouths very frequently, you have to worry about whether they are stressed.

Dogs generally like to lick, it's in their nature.

1. Dog's behavior problems, dogs' boredom leads to licking the sofa and the floor, such as food residues and odors on the floor, which require patient teaching from the owner.

2. Dogs lack trace elements, which will cause dogs to suffer from pica, and the common manifestations are licking everywhere, eating mud, wall ash, etc.